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skills strand169 Instructional days (169 hours)

Core Knowledge Language Arts, Skills

169 Instructional days (169 hours)

Students learn the decoding skills need for future independent reading.

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unit 210 hours

Sound Blending and Prewriting

10 hours

Students learn how to blend syllables to make two-syllable words, as well as two and three-sound words.

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unit 415 Instructional days (15 hours)

Segmenting and Sound Spelling

15 Instructional days (15 hours)

In this unit we introduce eight sounds along with the most common way of spelling each sound.

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unit 516 Instructional days (16 hours)

Short Vowel Sounds and Sound Spelling

16 Instructional days (16 hours)

In this unit we introduce eight more sounds using the most common spelling of each sound.

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unit 615 Instructional days (15 hours)

Letter Names, Rhyming Words, and Reading Consonant Clusters

15 Instructional days (15 hours)

Students are encouraged to automatize the letter-sound correspondences and blending procedures they learned in Units 3–5.

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unit 717 Instructional days (17 hours)

Segmenting and Sound Spelling

17 Instructional days (17 hours)

In this unit we introduce six more consonant sounds and the most common spelling for each sound.

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unit 820 Instructional days (20 hours)

Tricky Words and Letter Names

20 Instructional days (20 hours)

In this unit, we introduce 14 double-letter spellings for consonant sounds and seven high-frequency Tricky Words.

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unit 923 Instructional days (23 hours)

Oral Blending, Tricky Words, and Story Questions

23 Instructional days (23 hours)

This unit introduces uppercase letters as well as 17 additional Tricky Words.

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unit 1029 Instructional days (29 hours)

Segmenting, Sound Spelling, and Tricky Words

29 Instructional days (29 hours)

In this unit we introduce five additional vowel sounds and the most common spelling for each sound.

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